What stayed
The tenderness of the friendships and the way happiness and pain can sit beside each other without cancelling one another out.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A coming-of-age story for anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a room and wondered how everyone else learned to belong.
Why I recommend it
It makes loneliness feel understood rather than dramatised. There is warmth in it, but it never pretends that growing up is painless.
